Re: [PATCH] chroot= as a new kernel parameter

[Guillaume Chazarain]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun 2008-03-02 20:09:03, Pawel Plociennik wrote:
>  > so I thing that my patch is *unnecessary* now :-(
>
>  Actually I disagree here. This means that if distro in / breaks, you
>  will not be able to boot in ditstro in /foo any more :-(.

For this case, you can boot with something like:

init=/working_distro/lib/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path
/working_distro/lib  /working_distro/usr/sbin/chroot /working_distro/
/sbin/init

And that's actually how you should setup your grub.conf to avoid
depending on the distro in /.

-- 
Guillaume
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